Inaugural Stonehenge Q

Inaugural Stonehenge Q

So this was my first Q at Stonehenge.  It was about time I stopped freeloading.  I appreciate the opportunity to lead.  It appeared from Twitter that there was some #F3DayZero jealously.  Radar in particular really seemed to care.  He really is a warm teddy bear after you get past that extra tough exterior.

A request for Kettlebells was made the day before.  It appeared most of the Pax ignored the call or need to go out and buy one.  Luckily Lugie brought enough for everyone.

The 6:00 bell came and off we went towards the pond.  We stopped in the parking adjacent to the pond for a quick warm up.

Disclaimer was given and from what I saw several heeded the warning of “modify as needed.” A quick demonstration of the Prison Cell Merkin Burpee was shown.  I did some reading on the F3Nation.com site last night to find a few new exercises.  We did ten of these.  I would say it was a small success #changeishard.

From there we mosed down to the walkway where the pond loop and nature trail meet.  We counted off in threes.  Three rounds of pull ups x 12, kettelbell swings x 21 and one full loop around the pond .3 miles.  I borrowed this from a Crossfit exercise.  Congrats guys you are now all Crossfitters.  You must know walk around with your shirts off Metro style.  We did a pretty extensive plankorama while we waited on Haggis to perform perfect form #weallwanttobelikeHaggis.

From here we crossed over the bridge leaving the kettlebells to the base of the road in between the Bank Of America and Lance/Synder buildings.  Wanted to do a proper send off for Fire Hazard for leaving BofA.  Congrats on the new job.  7s were called going from the bottom of the street to the top of the hill where the bridge starts.  At the bottom do 180 degree jump squats.  At the top hand release merkins.  Do one jump squat to start followed by six hand release merkins.  With a twist.  I did not want everyone that missed out on the Haggis beatdown from yesterday of 130 burpees so at each building entrance going up and down you stopped to do five burpees.  Sneaky way of getting 120 burpees in if you did all six rounds.

Time was drawing near so we collected the six and mosed back over to the field by the pond.  We circled up and planked.  The instructions were either hold regular plank or elbow plank.  One Pax would do five merkins while everyone else held plank.  This continued until it came back around to where we started.

Last Mary exercise was Captain Thor.  Lots of groaning from the older Pax in the group.  #GrumpyOldMen.  To do Captain Thor you do one real sit up followed by four American Hammers.  You continue doubling the count so 2 sit ups followed by eight American Hammers.  We got to six sit ups and you guessed it twenty four American Hammers.

Collect the kettlebells and head back to the AO.  Time is up.

Moleskin: Not sure about Bean’s thinking.  It is too cold to wear shorts so he wears tights with no shorts but does not wear gloves.  Sneaky way of getting out of the exercises.

Outback must not like us because he flew out of the parking lot before BOM.  He was very spry on his merkins doing hand clap merkins.  Counting must be different in Kiwi land also.

Commish has some great rotation on his 180 degree jump squats.  #MustHaveBeenAGymnaist.

Cheddar learned how to use a kettlebell today.  Great job on the pull-ups.

It was good seeing Mic Check out at Stonehenge.  He is one of the founding fathers of Davinci so it is nice when he can make it back.

Teddy was neck and neck with Bean on the 7s.  He says he is getting back in shape but he seems already there.

Brisket, Tolken, Fire Hazard, Gumbo were working hard during the burpees while doing the 7s.

Gumbo is also one of the leaders in the miles and workout section on the website.  Nice work.  Fire Hazard may be leading the way with workouts.  Once that Achilles gets better you will be back at pounding the miles.

Frehley’s showed integrity by making sure he did all of his pull ups before moving on.

It was great having By Pass come out after a hiatus.  He worked hard despite not getting great instructions from the Q.

Lugie was a savior with his kettlebells.  It is great to have him back out and almost fully functioning after his labrum was injured.  Great work on the 7s.

Cable Guy continues to get stronger and stronger.  He quietly does work and never complains.  #LikeAMachine

Haggis continues to set the bar for perfect form and be a leader by calling out others.  He put a top five #F3TheBrave workout together yesterday.  I know my legs are still hurting.

Announcements: 5 year anniversary party March 5th.

Balrog sign up on signup genius to let the Qs to know how many to expect.

GoJenGo 5K 8:00 March 5th Southpark.  Double down opportunities.  Go to gojengo.org to sign up.

1k-10k merkin challenge starting March 1st.  Sign up to be accountable.

Last but not least March weight loss challenge.  If you do not make your weight goal you will be publicly flogged, I mean you have to do 200 burpees.

That is all.  Have a great day and thanks for coming out!